We Remember: Resources in Honor of Memorial Day:
As Americans mark Memorial Day on May 25, the Bildner Center shares highlights of a program cosponsored with the Rutgers Office of Military and Veteran Programs: Footsteps of My Father, the moving story of one American who saved Jewish POWs during World War II.
Oral Histories at Rutgers:
The Rutgers Oral History Archives includes testimonies of Rutgers alumni who are veterans.
We recommend these books by scholars who have given public lectures at the Bildner Center:
Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel
(Northwestern University Press, 2015)
Leah Garrett, Hunter College
The Abram Matlofsky Memorial Program – 2016
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
(Schocken/Next Book Jewish Encounter Series, 2012)
Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University
The Toby and Herbert Stolzer Endowed Program - 2012
Rebecca Chanin '20 Honored:
We congratulate recent graduate Rebecca Chanin who was selected as a SAS Class of 2020 Paul Robeson Scholar. Rebecca successfully defended her interdisciplinary senior honors thesis, “At The Hands of Others: Stories of Holocaust Survival.” Her capstone project was a documentary film using materials from the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archives.
Films recommended by the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival
- Above and Beyond
- Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray
- GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II
